Calculated some quick stats for my GTD system:
the current incarnation is 23 months old. That's more than I spent with a paper system.
I abandon 18% of the projects I start.
I realize 40% of the ideas I write down, i.e. out of every 5 ideas, two become completed projects and the other three go to the someday/maybe list.
my waiting-for list is 1.5 times bigger than my projects list.
This matches my overall feeling that the clarification routine is weak and I should drop more stuff early on. This despite the fact that I became way more focused in the last couple years, ruthlessly deallocating time and energy from things that appear less important. About half a year ago I realized that I hamstrung myself by deprioritizing some activities that brought me joy and energy, so I'm bringing those back now.
I suspect that in order to improve my clarification routine I should go to higher horizons and formulate a better understanding of where I'm heading. I tried bottom-up approach where I assign each project to an area of focus, but that didn't bring me any insights yet. Would love to hear how others approached their higher horizons.
@minoru @L29Ah Give @silverbulletmd a try, it's very cool.
@mdallastella Their site looks intriguing, I'll dive deeper. Thank you very much for the pointer!
Are you using it yourself? How usable is it from a smartphone? How well does sync work, have you lost any data yet or ran into inconveniences? What about the overall performance, are there any slow parts?
You're welcome. I'm self-hosting my own instance.
Mobile: you can install the PWA version, so I never had any sync issue.
I have 400 (circa) short notes and it's fast. Anyway it rely on service workers and IndexedDB, so it's local first.
Everything is configurable and programmable with Lua and the dynamic query system is quite good.
There are also a few Lua plugins to play with, personally I use the Treeview, SilverSearch, Mermaid, and Git integration. (See https://silverbullet.md/Plugs).
You can also mix Mermaid with dynamic queries, you can see it here: https://no.silverbullet.plus/docs-as-code.
I'm really enjoying it!
@L29Ah Logseq, but it isn't very good: https://blog.tty8.org/posts/2025-10-14-getting-things-done-with-logseq.html